M 5.5 in Indonesia on 25 Aug 2018 18:33 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1154905
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 9.84 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.4244 , 116.9264
Event Date: 25 Aug 2018 18:33 UTC
26 Aug 2018 02:33 Local
Exposed Population: About 3000 people in MMI
3750000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Aug 2018 21:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000ghbd Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 400 | About casualties: 55 | Last hour: 0

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),